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EXHIBIT 10.4 - Miyazawa Employment Contract

                              EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT

This Agreement is made and entered into by and between AJOL ("Employer") and
Hiroko Miyazawa ("Employee") as follows.

1.       Purpose
         a.       Employee engages in occupations which are set forth in Section
                  2 of this Agreement by direction of Employer and fulfills the
                  duties responsibly as ordered by Employer. Employer shall pay
                  a salary for the service.

2.       Occupation
         a.       Employee will work as a director having duties in an
                  employee's capacity whose core duties include in-house and
                  external negotiations, procedure arrangements and supervision
                  and direction for staff. Employee will engage in general
                  business of AJOL such as sales, assisting sales, office
                  duties, counting, production, distribution, operations and
                  technology as directed by Employer.

3.       Work location
         a.       Regular work location is in the Tokyo metropolitan and within
                  Kanto prefectures.

4.       Work hours
         a.       Regular shift is from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm.
         b.       Late shift is from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm or from 11:00am to
                  8:00pm
         c.       Evening shift is from 1:00 pm to 10:00 pm.
         d.       Holiday shift hour is from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.
         e.       Regular break is from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm and from 3:00 pm to
                  3:20 pm in regular shift, from 6:00 to 6:40 in overtime work
                  past 8:00pm, and from 3:00 pm to 3:20 pm and from 6:00 pm and
                  7:00 pm in evening shift.
         f.       Break in late shift is from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
         g.       Break in night shift is from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm and from 8:00
                  pm to 8:20pm.
         h.       Break in holiday shift is from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm and from
                  3:00 pm to 3:20 pm.
         i.       Work hours and break time may change for overtime work as
                  needed.
         j.       Employer issues a request for extra duty at least the month
                  before.

5.       Holidays
         a.       Regular holidays are Saturdays, Sundays, national holidays,
                  New Year holidays, and holidays which Employer sets forth.

         b.       However, Employer may request a holiday shift as needed.

         c.       Employer will issue a request for holiday work or holiday
                  shift at least 1 month before when Employer directs Employee
                  to work on holidays.

         d.       Employer assigns a substitute holiday in advance in case of
                  directing holiday shift.

6.       Supervision of work hours


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         a.       Sign in and out should be self-supervision for a scope which
                  doesn't affect business. Employee shall submit a designated
                  form only for the case of work absence, and tardiness and
                  leaving early more than half day. Arriving after 1:00 pm and
                  leaving before 12:00 pm are considered as tardiness and
                  leaving early of more than half day.

7.       Annual paid holidays
         a.       Employee will receive 10 days paid vacation per year on the
                  1st day of the month after having worked at least 80% of the
                  business days for three months since joining. One vacation day
                  will be added after the 2nd year and two days will be added
                  each year after 3 years 3 months of continued work. The
                  maximum cumulative vacation accrual allowed is 20 days.
         b.       Employee shall submit the designated form to the department
                  manager and acquire an approval at least one day before
                  Employee uses paid vacation. Employee shall submit a request
                  to President by fax by 12:00 am of the day before in a case
                  where the manager is not available. If Employee doesn't have
                  access to fax machine, Employee must report to President by
                  emailing to his cellular phone or leaving a message in his
                  answering machine.
         c.       Failure to properly submit the vacation request form will
                  result in an absence day whereby Employee can't transfer such
                  absence days to annual paid vacations.
         d.       Annual paid vacations cannot be used during a week after
                  holiday work indicated in Article 5, Item c. Holiday work may
                  be changed to holiday shift and a substitute holiday will be
                  assigned as day-off if there are any unavoidable reasons to
                  get day-off.

8.       Job grade, class and salary
         a.       Job grade and class is S-41.
         b.       Salary is paid monthly and the following amount will be paid
                  for 25 hours extra duty a month and 5 hours night shift.
                     salary             368,980 yen
                  +  extra duty          71,196 yen
                  +  night shift          2,824 yen
                  =  montly salary      443,000 yen
         c.       Extra duty request form for an applicable time must be issued
                  at least the month before in order to receive extra duty and
                  night shift benefits. If extra duty request form is not
                  issued, the benefits above will not be paid
         d.       Payroll closing date is every 15th and payment of salary from
                  16th of the previous month to 15th of the current month is
                  made into the designated bank account every 25th of the month.
         e.       Commuting allowances to the work location which is calculated
                  by the shortest route AJOL approves will be paid to Employee,
                  who uses public transportation such as train and bus. However,
                  the maximum allowance amount should not exceed the nontaxable
                  amount.
         f.       For Employee's absence, the following amount per day will be
                  deducted by the half day. Monthly salary x12 / (365-120)


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         g.       Holiday work benefit amount which is calculated by the
                  following method will be paid. Salary /annual predetermined
                  work hours (163.3 hours) x1.25 xactual holiday work hours
                  1)       Holiday work request or holiday shift request form
                           must be issued to receive holiday work benefit or
                           substitute holiday. If the form is not issued,
                           Employee will not receive the holiday work benefits
                           or substitute holidays.
                  2)       Employee will receive holiday work benefit for 7
                           hours which is recognized as actual work hours by
                           Employer if Employee engages in in-house occupation
                           on holidays.
                  3)       Employer will receive holiday work benefit for 5
                           hours which is recognized as actual work hours by
                           Employer if Employee attends agent training, works
                           for inventory taking, or collects news data.
                  4)       Employee will receive holiday work benefit for 5
                           hours which is recognized as actual work hours by
                           Employer if Employee attends important events such as
                           an Acube event, business partner's event, and
                           memorial service of employees and business partners
                           as a representative of the company. Holiday work
                           benefit will not be paid if events attended are not
                           considered important.
                  5)       Attending an in-house or outside training, business
                           trip to oversea, exclusive in-house event, events of
                           business partners, wedding reception of employees or
                           business partners, and other related events are not
                           considered important and not recognized as a holiday
                           work or a holiday shift.
                  6)       If business trip departure or arrival day falls into
                           holiday, it is not considered important and not
                           recognized as a holiday work or a holiday shift even
                           if it is for traveling or preparation.
                  7)       Even if M rank employees who should be responsible
                           for absolute liability work on holidays, their
                           primary work is directing and supervising, therefore
                           they don't receive holiday work or holiday shift
                           benefits.
         h.       Travel allowance will be paid as follows.
                  1)       Employee shall submit a business trip request form at
                           least one day before business trip and be self-proven
                           to receive travel allowance unless the trip is an
                           accidental event.
                  2)       Approved accommodation charge shall be 12,000 yen.
                  3)       Daily allowance shall be 6,000 yen per day.
                  4)       In a cases Employee stays at an accommodation whose
                           charge exceeds the approved accommodation charge,
                           actual expenses will be paid only if Employee stays
                           with President or the business partners.


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                  5)       Accommodation charges will be paid if Employee stays
                           the day before or after events for the convenience of
                           traveling or preparation.

                  6)       Daily allowance is paid when Employee attends Acube
                           events or events held by business partners, memorial
                           services of employees and business partners, and
                           other important duties in Tokyo and the 3 neighboring
                           prefectures.

                  7)       Travel allowance will be paid but not daily allowance
                           when Employee attends in-house and external training,
                           in-house events, events held by business partners,
                           wedding receptions of employees and business
                           partners, and the duties pursue these events.

                  8)       Daily allowance will be paid for the departure and
                           arrival days if the duties on the business trip are
                           important, but will not be paid during traveling and
                           days for preparations.

                  9)       However, daily allowance will be paid for the days if
                           a day before events or two days after events fall
                           into a holiday in Tokyo and 3 neighboring
                           prefectures.
         i.       Bonus which consists of one to three month of total monthly
                  salary amount will be distributed biannually depending on the
                  work ability rating, based on the company's results. However,
                  in case there are unavoidable reasons such as the company
                  results and other, Employer may change the payment day or stop
                  the payment.
                  1)       From April to September and from October to March
                           will be subject to bonus payment term and bonus will
                           be paid in December and July as a general rule.
                  2)       Employee must be employed on a payment day in order
                           to receive bonus.
                  3)       If the employment term in the bonus subject term is
                           less than 6 months, a prorated amount will be
                           calculated.

9.       Service Discipline
         a.       Employee shall work honestly according to Employer's direction
                  and strictly observe the company rules, the other regulations
                  and the service discipline on the pledge.

10.      Approval items by Employee
         a.       Employee accepts the approval items on the pledge.

11.      Indemnification for damage
         a.       If Employee causes damage or loss of credibility to Employer
                  by violating the company rules and the other regulations by a
                  serious mistake or deliberatively, Employee must bear the
                  responsibility for indemnifying the damage.

12.      Term
         a.       Agreement term is from July 1, 2003 to June 30, 2004.
         b.       Employer will give a renewal or termination notice to Employee
                  at least 30 days before the termination date.

13.      Termination

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         a.       Employer can terminate this Agreement by giving a notice if
                  there are any significant reasons caused by Employee violating
                  the company rules and the other regulations.
         b.       Employer can terminate this Agreement by giving at least 30
                  days notice if there are particular unavoidable reasons.
         c.       Employee can terminate this Agreement by giving 14 days notice
                  to Employer based on 15th or the end of month being a
                  termination date.